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Better summary: The IDF is making efforts to get civilian out of a combat area. Hamas is trying to keep them there as human shields.
The ominous sounding "General's Plan" is to cut an enemy force from supplies. Which is a valid and legal military strategy, and one that's used in basically every war. Note the key part of the plan to move civilians from the area so it's only enemy forces that are cut off from supply.
And we really don't know if that strategy is even being employed. Israel nearly always warns civilians to leave areas where there are significant combat operations planned. Why would this particular warning indicate anything beyond that? There's a lot of civilians there, and there's Hamas there. All we know is that the IDF wants to attack Hamas in some way without there being civilians in the area.
So it's just a rumour the BBC is spreading in this article in an effort to appear "balanced". If they simply reported the facts that the IDF is trying to get civilians out of a combat area, it might sound like they're saying that the IDF is doing something good. Can't have that! Gotta put something in there for the ghouls that are still upset that the Gaza famine they were hoping for didn't actually happen.
Really it may not even be feasible to cut the enemy off from supply in an urban combat scenario. We really don't know how much food Hamas have stockpiled (while also pushing claims that Israel was trying to starve Palestinians). But it's understandable that a military might try to think of ways to accomplish this given the whole "cut the enemy off from supplies" is basically the default strategy in any military operation.
Expelling 400k people might be spinned as "getting civilians out of a combat area" if Israel were not a state that systematically settles conquered land (to the tune of 700k settlers in the West Bank) and if its government didn't have ministers (on whom the ruling coalition depends to stay in power) that are explicitly saying that they want to do exactly this again.
Like, bro, who the fuck do you think is reading these things you write? Umpa Loompas from Jupiter?
This guy is calling international war crimes as "a valid and legal military strategy".
"The starvation and mass killing of civilians in the Warsaw Ghetto is a legitimate strategy" - This guy.
"We need to put the Jews in gas chambers to differentiate between civilians and combatants."
This guy.
What do you think is going on whenever Ukraine hits the Kerch Birdge? They're trying to cut Russia off from supply. Do you think this is a war crime? Or do you define war crime as "everything Israel does"?
Spoiler alert. It isn't. You have no idea what you're talking about. They aren't interdicting military supply convoys or shelling artillery depots. You absolutely cannot cut food off from civilians. It doesn't matter if they don't want to move. You have to let the food go through.
Yes we do. USAID let the cat out of the bag.
I understand you dearly want Israel to be a lawful liberal democracy. But it just isn't.
In Article 49, the Fourth Geneva Convention, adopted on 12 August 1949, specifically forbade forced displacement: Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive.
(Short excerpt of the long section clarifying that it’s a war crime)
They are moving civilians out of the area. You seemingly are missing that part. So no, they are not cutting off food from civilians.
Yeah that's not for USAID to decide, and any report where an agency is overstepping it's purview is suspect. If they're pushing for a policy change beyond the scope of their department, then they can't really be trusted to not fudge things to try to influence things further. They're behaving unprofessionally to gain power they aren't supposed to have and you can't trust them to behave professionally when gathering information.